Your favourite MS-DOS games

Actually, I wasn't sure where to start this thread - here or in general discussion. Anyway, I just stumped across some old CD with a bunch of 'old school' MS-DOS games and flashbacks just started to appear after I browsed through the folders. These games simply rule. So, what were (or still are) your favourite ones?

Hmm, I loved King's Quest, Space Quest and Police Quest. My favourite games were probably Wizardry - Proving Grounds Of The Mad Overlord and Starflight I and II. Then there was Elite, which was awesome too.

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My favorite computer game, in fact the only one that I ever really "got into" (maybe I burned myself out with it) is the text-only Colossal Cave Adventure game that was originally written in the 1970s in FORTRAN for the "minicomputers" of the time: Digital Equipment PDP's and VAXes, etc. Then it was ported to C so it can probably be compiled on just about anything.

jtbell, when I returned to college in 1977 after quite a number of years working, I found a Star Trek game that could be played on the consoles (where did the punch cards go!!!!) and could return printed outputs of your position and those of the enemies. Cool.

My favorite computer game, in fact the only one that I ever really "got into" (maybe I burned myself out with it) is the text-only Colossal Cave Adventure game that was originally written in the 1970s in FORTRAN for the "minicomputers" of the time: Digital Equipment PDP's and VAXes, etc. Then it was ported to C so it can probably be compiled on just about anything.

:rofl:
I ported this to IBM Mainframe fortran sometime in the 70's.
Even had a work request as they wanted somthing for the Boy Scouts.
Boy Scouts wern't the only people that played

Also put up a varient of Startrek (Galaxy) written for the 6800. Forget which language I used, but it stopped working when the mainframe went from direct terminals to remote and you could no longer do unsolicited display updates.